The Old Vicarage 1 Lower Polsham Road Paignton Devon TQ3 2AU
Approved on 19 April 2013
Council decision: No Objections RaisedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Horse Chestnut - Pollarding above main fork at approximately 10 feet
- Received
- 1 March 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Torbay Council
- ReceivedReceived1 Mar
- ValidatedValidated14 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided19 Apr
Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Old Vicarage 1 Lower Polsham Road Paignton Devon TQ3 2AU. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Polsham Park conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,005 applications in total for the TQ3 postcode area.
87% of trees applications at Torbay Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TQ3 2AU
- Application type
- Works To Tree Within TPO And CA
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 March 2013
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Polsham
- Listed building: Boundary Walls And Gate Piers To North Of Parish Church Of Christ ChurchOn or next to this site
- Article 4 direction: Polsham
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2004.011Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20208 Jun
Construction of two dwellings within curtilage of existing grounds.
RefusedPlanning ApplicationP/2020/0544 - 20208 Jun
Change of use from school (D1) to four residential dwellings (C3).
RefusedPlanning ApplicationP/2020/0545 - 20086 Aug
Single storey extension (revised scheme to previous approval ref P/2008/0451/PA
ApprovedPlanning ApplicationP/2008/1101
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